more flash. and now html 5. I really hate that crap as user interface basis. Fine for quick web service ports, but I want native, blindingly fast and smooth apps, integrated into your GUI framework. INTEFREAKINGRATED.

Even Denney admits html apps are not designed for speed (quoted by verge article). As a developer, i'd say well DUH. And the worst thing is no unification. I lived with this under the premier for years, and moved to an apple tv for all but my cable shows. I may get a roamio down the road and keep this pattern but I am convinced we are seeing their future plans in action: apps are separate and web based.

There's nothing wrong with Flash/AIR as an interface. The issue has been the TiVo3 didn't have the power to run it and the TiVo4 just barely had the power to run it. The new CPUs in the TiVo5 have native hardware acceleration for Flash/AIR and other technologies. TiVo was not capable of utilizing the advanced technologies of AIR to make the interface everything it needed to be. Now they can.

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You guys with the Flash (And now HTML 5?) hate, unless you are a software developer who works for TiVo, your opinion on which framework is better doesn't matter. The only thing you should care about is that TiVo provides a consistent, fast and intuitive interface for its customers. I believe that the Roamio provides two of those three prongs and if they ever get around to finishing the damn HDUI, all three will be true.

HTML 5 and Flash before it aren't designed for speed, they are designed for rapid development and in the case of HTML 5, automatic updates without having to push a software update down the pipe (And involving TiVo). Netflix and YouTube will now self update and we get the same updates that the PS3, Roku and other HTML 5 boxes get. Typically when they get them.

more flash. and now html 5. I really hate that crap as user interface basis. Fine for quick web service ports, but I want native, blindingly fast and smooth apps, integrated into your GUI framework. INTEFREAKINGRATED.

No one is going to write native apps for a TiVo platform that doesn't use web standards. This is why TiVo moved to HTML5. Getting developers to write for the old platform was way too difficult. Almost all major web services use HTML5 for their apps across platforms now (Netflix, Hulu, etc). So now these companies don't have to spend a lot of resources to work with TiVo on releasing an app for the platform. It is a win for the consumer.

This is likely why they added DIAL as well. In the past the apps had to be specifically written for TiVo so that the ability to launch programs from TiVo Search would work. Now TiVo can simply tap into the DIAL protocol to launch the apps and start playing the proper show. Makes integration of new apps a LOT easier for everyone involved.